The Board of Curators of the University of Missouri System violated academic freedom in dismissing Melissa Click, a former assistant professor of communication studies at the Columbia campus, according to a new investigatory report by the American Association of University Professors. As a result, AAUP could vote to censure Mizzou’s administration at the association’s upcoming meeting. “By denying Click an adjudicative hearing of record before a duly constituted faculty body and other procedural rights guaranteed under both [AAUP-recommended policy] and the University of Missouri Collected Rules and Regulations, the Board of Curators violated basic standards of academic due process,” the report says. And in so doing, it “set a dangerous precedent that threatens the security of position and, consequently, the academic freedom of all faculty members.”

May 19, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed